Victorian coroner is examining the medical care three-year-old received before her death from septic shock in 2019
The last doctor to assess Victorian toddler Dio Kemp before she died of septic shock has told an inquest he believed the three-year-old was recovering in her final days.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup “She’s already been seen by five doctors in her four visits to the hospital, including two paediatricians and two registrars and one emergency physician and the results of the test done at Monash confirmed the diagnosis [of a virus],” Leber said.
“That’s why I said if she’s not better by the next day, then she should go back to the emergency department.”
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